Steve Lightle

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Steve Lightle (born 1959) is an American comic book artist, working primarily as a penciller.

[edit] Biography

Lightle was born in Kansas. He was interested in comic book art at a young age.

Lightle's first professional comic book work was in DC New Talent Showcase, a series intended to provide work for up and coming artist who did not have a regular assignment.

In 1984, Lightle was given the daunting task of following Keith Giffen as the regular artist on DC Comics's Legion of Super-Heroes. Although Lightle tenure as interior artist (inked by Larry Mahlstedt) was brief, Lightle continued as the regular cover arist until 1988. During Lightle's tenure, he co-created two Legionnaires, Tellus and Quislet, whose unusually visual appearance contrasted with the humanoid appearances of the other Legionnaires.

Lightle was the first penciler during the 1987 revival of the Doom Patrol, but he left after the first five issue story arc.

Much of Lightle work has been as a cover artist. Lightle's typically both pencils and inks his covers. In 1989 and 1990, Lightle was the regular cover artist for Classic X-Men (later retitled X-Men Classic). He produced new covers and frontispieces for to accompanied the reprinted stories.

[edit] References

Signh, Arune. "Because You Demanded It, A Legionnaire Returns: Steve Lightle Talks 'Legion'" Interview with Steve Lightle. Comic Book Resources. http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=1667 (October 30, 2002).

Vollmar, Rob. "Conversation With A Craftsman: Steve Lightle Talks With Rob Vollmar." Interview with Steve Lightle. SBC Interviews. http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/features/96537240023309.htm